How to Coach Yourself and Others Better Coaching Through Visualisation | Page 84

2 Keep your way
You must absolutely maintain your genuine vision and its goals.
Never downgrade it!
Along your course, the original reality is a magnet that holds you
back. The vision is a magnet that pulls you forward and You are
between them.

Let us suppose that, as in the diagram above, you are at an equal
distance between the two. When you come across a difficulty, you
will be tempted to lower your ambitions and downgrade your vision.
Acting like this makes you think you are getting closer to the
modified vision. You had 10 meters to run, you think that by
limiting your ambitions there will only be 7 meters left.
This reasoning is false. Rather than getting closer to a vision that is
easier to attain, you will on the contrary move away from it, as
shown by the diagram below:

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